Written by Diamonds for Peace Liberia staff Diamonds for Peace Liberia is a local NGO established to promote fair diamonds, and to provide self-reliant support to the artisanal diamond workers. It has a small office in the city of Kakata, and its activities are run in Liberia (Kakata is the…
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Written by Diamonds for Peace Liberia Staff General overview of the artisanal diamond mining communities in Liberia Poor infrastructural development is an issue in many artisanal diamond mining communities in Liberia. The artisanal diamond workers often move from one diamond mining community to the other in search of diamonds. Therefore,…
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On February 4th, 2018, NGO Diamond for Peace (DFP) set up a booth at Yokohama International Forum 2018 held in the Japanese International Cooperation Agency Yokohama International Center. Around 50 organizations working in the fields of international cooperation and/or multicultural understanding conducted seminars, workshops or exhibitions. A wide range…
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Written by Diamonds for Peace Liberia Staff March 2018 A Diggers’ Association is an association consisting of a group of diamond diggers in a particular diamond mining community. Its major purpose is to allow diggers to hold regular meetings, identify issues affecting them and find ways forward to better their…
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Chie Murakami and Tomone Kawai, the Director General and the Deputy Director General for Diamonds for Peace, participated in the Panasonic NPO Support Fund for Africa Award Ceremony held at Panasonic center in Tokyo on 24th January 2018. In the morning, we participated in presentations of progress reports by NPOs…
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Written by Diamonds for Peace Liberia staff Liberia’s transition, what it means to every Liberian Liberia has not had a democratic transition of power from one elected president to the next in the last 74 years. But how Liberians feel about the transition is an important issue to talk about.…
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Many persons in Liberia’s western mining region find their living through artisanal diamond mining; some work as miners and many of them as diggers. Many rely solely on diamond mining for survival. Gondor Town is a diamond mining community in the western region of Grand Cape Mount County; one of…
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The Liberian culture speaks of the way Liberians should dress and act. Additionally, it teaches good morals and societal norms, varying from tribe to tribe. However, many Liberians in urban communities are gradually forgetting their cultural heritage and have substituted it with western cultural forms. This trend reaches even to…
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